In this movie, I'll show you how to adjust the…Blend settings associated with the Smart Sharpen effect for two reasons.…First of all we want to limit…our sharpening to just the luminance information.…Because if you end up also sharpening color as happens by…default, then you can end up with all sorts of color artifacts.…And secondly, we want to avoid clipping of…highlights and shadows along the sharpened edges.…So, the first…thing I'm going to do here is double click on the…Smart Sharpen filter to open up the dialogue box here.…

And I'm going to zoom on in, which should help to wake up the preview as well.…And now I'm going to crank that amount value up to 500% and…I'm going to take the radius value up to 5 pixels, like so.…So, that we're seeing a massive amount of sharpening.…And notice that we're sharpening not just the luminance info…but the color as well.…And you can see that by clicking and holding.…So, when I click and hold inside the image, I've got…green behind the butterfly's back and I've got blackness inside the butterfly.…

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9/18/2014

Released

8/19/2013

Photoshop CC One-on-One is back, and this installment teaches you how to build on your basic knowledge and achieve next-level effects with this premiere image-editing program. Industry pro Deke McClelland shows you how to seamlessly move and patch areas of a photo with the Content-Aware toolset; stretch the brightness of a scene with automatic and custom Levels adjustments; create intricate designs with text and shapes; and morph an image with layer effects and transformations. Deke also shares his techniques for sharpening details, whether addressing noise and highlight/shadow clipping or camera shake, and converting a full-color image to black and white. The final chapters show you how to best print and save images for the web, making sure all your hard work pays off in the final output.

Topics include:

Performing automatic retouch, scaling, and more with the Content-Aware tools

Editing the histogram

Customizing a Levels adjustment

Making channel-by-channel Levels adjustments

Sharpening with the Smart Sharpen, Emboss, and High Pass filters

Working with vector-based type

Kerning and tracking characters

Creating text on a path

Drawing and customizing shapes

Creating depth, contour, and texture with layer effects

Liquifying an image

Simulating an infrared photo

Adjusting print position, size, and color

Creating the perfect JPEG image

Downsampling for the web

Skill Level Intermediate

10h 37m

Duration

643,462

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Q: This course was updated on 09/18/2014. What changed?

A: Deke updated the course to reflect changes in the 2014
version of Photoshop CC. The updates are concentrated in "The Content-Aware Collection" and "Creating and Formatting Text"
chapters, but there are new movies sprinkled throughout the course as well.